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Numbers 10:33 לָת֥וּר to seek out

So they set out on a three-day journey from the mountain of the LORD, with the ark of the covenant of the LORD traveling ahead of them for those three days to seek a resting place for them.

Here: To go around looking a place over, to reconnoitre. This is the key verb of the spy story in Numbers 13–14. Here God, through the ark, does the scouting for Israel.

Numbers 13:2 וְיָתֻ֙רוּ֙ so they may spy out

“Send out for yourself men to spy out the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelites. From each of their fathers’ tribes send one man who is a leader among them.”

Numbers 13:16 לָת֣וּר to spy out

These were the names of the men Moses sent to spy out the land; and Moses gave to Hoshea son of Nun the name Joshua.

Numbers 13:17 לָת֖וּר to spy out

When Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, he told them, “Go up through the Negev and into the hill country.

Numbers 13:21 וַיָּתֻ֣רוּ and they spied out

So they went up and spied out the land from the Wilderness of Zin as far as Rehob, toward Lebo-hamath.

Here: "And they scouted out." This is the key word of the whole story (Num 13–14). It means going around a territory to look it over and assess it. The task included military intelligence, but it also included judging the soil, trees and fruit (vv.18–20).

Numbers 13:25 מִתּ֣וּר from spying out

After forty days the men returned from spying out the land,

Numbers 13:32 תָּר֣וּ לָת֣וּר they had spied out, to spy out

So they gave the Israelites a bad report about the land that they had spied out: “The land we explored devours its inhabitants, and all the people we saw there are great in stature.

Numbers 14:6 הַתָּרִ֖ים those [who] spied out

Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, who were among those who had spied out the land, tore their clothes

Here: This is a participle (a verb form used like a noun) with "the" in front: "the scouts", "those who went around looking over" the land. The word means touring and surveying the land, not necessarily secret spying. It is the key verb of the whole story in chapters 13–14.

Numbers 14:7 לָת֣וּר to spy out

and said to the whole congregation of Israel, “The land we passed through and explored is an exceedingly good land.

Numbers 14:34 תַּרְתֶּ֣ם you spied out

In keeping with the forty days you spied out the land, you shall bear your guilt forty years—a year for each day—and you will experience My alienation.

Here: "You scouted." Only twelve men went, but God speaks to the whole people as "you". The nation owns what its representatives did and the report it chose to believe.

Numbers 14:36 לָת֣וּר to spy out

So the men Moses had sent to spy out the land, who had returned and made the whole congregation grumble against him by bringing out a bad report about the land—

Numbers 14:38 לָת֥וּר to spy out

Of those men who had gone to spy out the land, only Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh remained alive.

Numbers 15:39 תָתֻ֜רוּ you will go about

These will serve as tassels for you to look at, so that you may remember all the commandments of the LORD, that you may obey them and not prostitute yourselves by following your own heart and your own eyes.

Here: The same verb used for the spies who 'scouted' Canaan in Numbers 13–14. It pictures roving and exploring wherever your own desires lead. Readers who had just heard of the spies' failure would catch the echo.

Deuteronomy 1:33 לָת֥וּר to seek out

who went before you on the journey, in the fire by night and in the cloud by day, to seek out a place for you to camp and to show you the road to travel.

Here: "To scout out." This is the verb used for the twelve spies in Numbers 13. Moses says God himself had been doing the scouting all along, which sharpens the rebuke for sending human spies and then believing their report over him.

Judges 1:23 וַיָּתִ֥ירוּ and they caused to spy out

They sent spies to Bethel (formerly known as Luz),

1 Kings 10:15 הַתָּרִ֔ים the merchants

not including the revenue from the merchants, traders, and all the Arabian kings and governors of the land.

2 Chronicles 9:14 הַתָּרִ֛ים the merchants

not including the revenue from the merchants and traders. And all the Arabian kings and governors of the land also brought gold and silver to Solomon.

Job 39:8 יְת֣וּר it explores

He roams the mountains for pasture, searching for any green thing.

Proverbs 12:26 יָתֵ֣ר he makes a search

A righteous man is cautious in friendship, but the ways of the wicked lead them astray.

Here: A causative form of the verb used for scouts going ahead to explore land or find a route. Here it probably means 'scouts out (the way) / acts as a guide' or 'examines carefully.' The form is unusual, and the text may be damaged. KJV took it from a different root meaning 'to excel.'

Ecclesiastes 1:13 וְלָתוּר֙ and to discover

And I set my mind to seek and explore by wisdom all that is done under heaven. What a miserable task God has laid upon the sons of men to occupy them!

Here: The verb used for the spies who 'scouted out' Canaan (Numbers 13). It pictures ranging across the whole territory of human experience to survey it.

Ecclesiastes 2:3 תַּ֣רְתִּי I searched

I sought to cheer my body with wine and to embrace folly—my mind still guiding me with wisdom—until I could see what was worthwhile for men to do under heaven during the few days of their lives.

Here: The verb used for the spies scouting Canaan (Numbers 13). The speaker goes on a deliberate fact-finding mission, not into a drifting lapse.

Ecclesiastes 7:25 וְלָת֔וּר and to examine

I directed my mind to understand, to explore, to search out wisdom and explanations, and to understand the stupidity of wickedness and the folly of madness.

Here: "And to scout," the verb used for the spies sent into Canaan. It pictures thought as reconnaissance: going over unfamiliar ground to report what is really there.

Ezekiel 20:6 תַּ֣רְתִּי I had selected

On that day I swore to bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had searched out for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the glory of all lands.

Here: "I scouted out". This is the same verb used for the twelve spies in Numbers 13–14. Here God is the scout: he has already looked the land over and picked it.